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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
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Spanning 30 years of recording, Lovely Creatures is a collection of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds music from their 1984 debut From Her To Eternity to 2013’s 15th studio album Push The Sky Away. Compiled by Cave and longtime Bad Seeds cohort Mick Harvey, the album was scheduled for release in Autumn 2015, but shelved following the death of Cave’s 15-year-old son […]
Sub Pop veterans the Afghan Whigs have been ploughing their own peculiar furrow through American rock for more than 30 years now. In Spades is their second album of new material since returning to recording in 2014 with To The Beast.
In no particular order some of my favourite music moments. No26 She Don’t Use Jelly By The Flaming Lips. I first encountered this song many years ago while attending the wonderful Liss Ard festival in Skibbereen, Ireland. I’d gone to watch three of my all-time favourites; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (while Blixa Bargeld was still on board), […]
New albums by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are always an event but the release of Skeleton Tree comes with more baggage than most. For those who don’t know the sad story by now, recording was savagely interrupted by the tragic death of Cave’s son Arthur in a cliff fall near the family’s home in Brighton. The fraught recording process […]
Nick Cave and The Band Seeds are to release their first material since the tragic death of Nick’s 15-year-old son Arthur last July. The new album, entitled Skeleton Tree, will be released on 9 September, preceded by an accompanying film One More Time With Feeling directed by Andrew Dominik.